2001 AIME II Problem 15
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15.
Let and be three adjacent square faces of a cube, for which and let be the eighth vertex of the cube. Let and be points on and respectively, so that A solid is obtained by drilling a tunnel through the cube. The sides of the tunnel are planes parallel to and containing the edges and The surface area of including the walls of the tunnel, is where and are positive integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find
Solution:
Place and so that and has direction The line through in that direction leaves the cube at similarly and lead to and The tunnel wall through and is the plane which also contains and and crosses the -axis at the other two walls behave symmetrically, crossing the - and -axes at and
Now add up the surface. Each of the three cube faces at loses a right triangle with legs (such as ), leaving area Each of the three faces at loses a quadrilateral of area on the face its vertices are Each tunnel wall is a pentagon like the rectangle with and has area and the isosceles triangle with base and height adds for per wall.
The total surface area is so
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